velvet plant

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of several plants with velvety hairs on the leaves, such as mullein or the ornamental houseplant Gynura aurantiaca, a vine native to Java.

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• noun Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs
• noun any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers